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To: jackbob
You're losing me.

Government election? Private election? Covenants? I'm talking about a state within the United States. Hello?

Someone circulates a petition ... starts a referendum. An issue then appears on the ballot, "Shall gambling be allowed in our state (community)?" A majority vote no.

Man, you can't get more bottom up than that. You can't get any more democratic and legitimate and voluntary than that.

But no good huh? Not unless each and every resident approves, I guess is what you're trying to say. Then it's OK, right?

Now, how do you propose to get everyone to approve? You going to break them up into little enclaves? So we've got gamblers here, non-gamblers there. Drug users here, non-drug users there. Prostitutes here. No prostitutes there.

Uh-oh. Where do we put the gambling prostitutes that don't want drugs around? Hmmmm. Separate enclave, I guess, huh?

And the non-gambling, drug-using prostitute? Yet another enclave.

You're a pretty funny guy.

71 posted on 09/29/2003 1:29:58 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
As I said in reply #60

As a political philosophy, libertarianism is the only one that affords people an opportunity (as a right), to form and maintain exclusive communities of like minded people, to live, work, and raise families, free of outside interference. You will not find this right and encouragement any where else on the political spectrum.

You just have to learn to read.

I never suggested that Libertarianism is going to provied you a free welfare check, in the form of giving your property and values special special protection. You will have to earn that yourself. Libertarianism only will protect your right to invest toward your particular desires and values. It will not provide them for you. That will have to be of your own doing.

You ask:

Where do we put...

We Don't ! ! !

Instead, you decide for your self only, at your own expense, where you want to be.

And yes, a state would have lots of enclave, pretty much the way it is now. Just most of them would be better defined, and have better legal protection against outside interference.

We do not want a mommy state to take care of us, as you seem to want.

72 posted on 09/29/2003 2:12:10 PM PDT by jackbob
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